Yes, the time has come around again. What better way to start the academic year than to come along to a talk by Jyoti Fernandes of Fivepenny Farm, The Land Is Ours/ Chapter 7/ The Land magazine, The Peasants Co-operative. Here is a little summary from the Food For Life website about Fivepenny farm:
Fivepenny Farm is a 43 acre low-impact, sustainable smallholding where Jyoti Fernandez and her husband Dai Saltmarsh, with friends Oliver and Kerry Goolden, grow organic fruit and vegetables, and keep a small number of cattle, chickens and pigs. They specialise in growing traditional and heritage varieties of vegetables including many different tomatoes, selling their seasonal produce in Bridport market.
There is also timber-framed, thatched barn with solar and wind power, which provides a local food processing facility for a co-operative of mainly organic farmers and producers. They have an orchard, planted 5 years ago when they bought the land, two small areas of woodland and are restoring wildflower meadows.
Here at the W.I we’re all about sustainability, conserving the environment, learning new and traditional skills, resilience, thrift and women’s craft. Jyoti’s lifestyle fully encompasses those things. I have heard her speak at a conference, and she was really inspiring. I wholly recommend this week’s meeting. Tell your friends, bring them along.
7:30pm, The Town Hall (School Lane, Gillingham), Thursday 1st September
facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=265728523445772
see you there!
